A key Air Force command welcomes new commander Monday

Jun. 9—One of the most crucial Air Drive important commands will welcome a new commander Monday.

Lt. Gen. Duke Z. Richardson will thrive Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr. as commander of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) at a ceremony at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Power.

The celebration is not open to the general public, but the command claimed the ceremony will be livestreamed on You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/c/AFMC.

Other museum galleries will be open up to the general public as normal, the command stated. The museum opens at 9 a.m.

Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Pressure Base, AFMC manages a lot more than one particular-3rd of the Air Drive spending plan, taking care of and dispersing money across several installations, supporting investigation and growth and lots of other jobs. The command incorporates more than 87,000 uniformed and civilian Airmen at bases close to the environment.

Wright-Patterson is the largest one-website employer in Ohio, with a lot more than 32,000 military services and civilian personnel.

Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr., Air Power main of workers, is scheduled to preside at the alter of command, and other senior Air Drive and Space Pressure leaders are expected to be on hand.

Bunch will retire right away immediately after the ceremony, AFMC explained. He and his wife Caroline will return to indigenous Tennessee the place Bunch will become director of Hamblen County Schools.

Richardson serves at the Pentagon as Military Deputy, Business of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Engineering, and Logistics.

He will pin on his fourth star through a non-public ceremony with spouse and children associates in advance of assuming command, starting to be a entire standard.

In accordance to his Air Power bio, Richardson’s profession started out in 1983 with his enlistment as an avionics technician. He acquired an electrical engineering degree below the Airmen’s Schooling and Commissioning program and attended Air Drive Officer Teaching University in which he acquired his fee as a second lieutenant in September 1989.

His career in acquisition and materiel introduced him to Wright-Patterson for the very first time in 1997 the place he supported the F-15 System Software Office, the command claimed. He also experienced leadership roles in the Aeronautical Techniques Middle and Air Force Daily life Cycle Administration Center at Wright-Patterson, like as AFLCMC vice commander.

Richardson hails from Tucson, Ariz. He and his wife, Dede, have four youngsters and six grandchildren.